BLUFF 06 a Poetry Symposium in Southland 21-24 April 2006
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BLUFF 06 a poetry symposium in Southland 21-24 April 2006 Cilla McQueen, David Howard and the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) present four days of readings, discussion, launches and digital outreach in Bluff and Rakiura. Featured writers: Rob Allan, Tusiata Avia, Jeanne Bernhardt, Kay McKenzie Cooke, John Dolan, Martin Edmond, Murray Edmond, David Eggleton, Cliff Fell, Brian Flaherty, Paula Green, Michael Harlow, Bernadette Hall, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, David Howard, Michele Leggott, Therese Lloyd, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Cilla McQueen, Emma Neale, Richard Reeve, Jack Ross, Brian Turner Venues Te Rau Aroha Marae, cnr Bradshaw and Henderson Sts, Bluff. 03 212 7205. Free admission to all sessions The Community Centre, Halfmoon Bay, Rakiura. $10 adults, $2 children THURSDAY 20 APRIL Afternoon Arrivals check in at Marae or hotels. Own arrangements Invercargill to Bluff for those flying Evening Informal get-together for poets and crew (Cilla McQueen) Te Rau Aroha night #1 FRIDAY 21 APRIL Te Rau Aroha Marae Morning Set up book table, anthology laptop, seating, PA, screen and data projector (crew) 12.00 Book table open. nzepc online anthology begins: bring a poem on a disk to any of the symposium events or email your contribution to [email protected] between 21-23 April 1.30 Powhiri / welcome. Visitors assemble at main gate 2.30 Afternoon tea 3.00 Symposium keynote Richard Reeve. The South Island Myth: observations on the ethics of mystery in the work of three local poets 3.45 Webpage launches Cilla McQueen, David Howard and David Eggleton (nzepc) 4.30 Book and CD launch David Eggleton Fast Talker (AUP). Cilla McQueen and the Blue Neutrinos A Wind Harp (UOP) 6.00 Dinner, stories from the house (Te Rau Aroha) 8.00 Evening Reading Bernadette Hall (MC) and Murray Edmond, Cliff Fell, Bian Flaherty, Paula Green, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Therese Lloyd, Selina Tusitala Marsh Te Rau Aroha night #2 SATURDAY 22 APRIL Te Rau Aroha Marae. Book table open 9.30-3.30. Anthology continues. 9.30 Workshop Words and Places: Jack Ross and all comers produce collaborative texts for BLUFF 06 12.00 Lunch. Poem posters on display 1.00 Presentations 1 Selina Tusitala Marsh. Casting the (Inter)net in Oceania: Pasifika Poetry Web Jeffrey Paparoa Holman. Making up the Mauri: Elsdon Best and Henry Williams' Dictionary 2.00 Presentations 2 Murray Edmond. One World One Voice: A Reading of ‘So There’ by Robert Creeley (1926-2005) Michele Leggott and Helen Sword. Lola Ridge: Hokitika, Sydney, San Francisco, New York 3.00 Afternoon tea 6.00 Special dinner (Te Rau Aroha) 8.00 Evening Reading Cilla McQueen (MC) and Tusiata Avia, John Dolan, David Eggleton, Michael Harlow, Emma Neale, Brian Turner Te Rau Aroha night #3 SUNDAY 23 APRIL Te Rau Aroha Marae and Rakiura. Book table open 10.00-2.30. Anthology continues. 10.00 New in 06 Paula Green, Bernadette Hall, Jack Ross and Murray Edmond talk and read from new publications 11.00 Morning tea 11.30 Presentations 3 Michael Harlow. On Being Translated: Translation and the Third Text Hilary Chung and Jacob Edmond. Chinese Poet on a Kiwi Passport: Yang Lian’s New Zealand Poems 12.30 Lunch 1.00 Presentations 4 Alison Hunt and Bronwyn Lloyd. ‘Ambergris rolls on Hellfire Beach’: Robin Hyde in the South, 1936 Martin Edmond. Ern Malley: the Autobiography of a Fiction 2.15 Poroporaaki / farewell 4.00 Ferry to Rakiura 7.30 Mihi. Evening Reading and launch of online anthology OBAN 06 Gwen Neave (MC) and Rob Allan, Jeanne Bernhardt, Kay McKenzie Cooke, Martin Edmond, David Howard, Michele Leggott, Richard Reeve, Jack Ross Shearwater Inn night #1 MONDAY 24 APRIL 10.00 Bush beach walk picnic ramble readings Ferry to Bluff. Onward travel BLUFF 06 is generously supported by Creative Communities Southland, the Southland District Council & Community Trust, Te Rau Aroha Marae, Toi Rakiura and the University of Auckland Information David Howard [email protected] BLUFF 06 BOOK TABLE Te Rau Aroha Marae, Friday – Sunday afternoon, corridor area between wharenui and wharekai If you have books you would like to sell, please bring them to our book table from Friday morning 21 April with a list of titles, prices and number of copies. Let us know your preferred method of payment (cash is easiest) and price your books in simple denominations ($10, $15 etc). Please collect money and unsold books by 2.30 Sunday afternoon. OBAN 06 is the title of nzepc’s online poetry anthology, building 21-23 April 2006 as part of the BLUFF 06 poetry symposium in Southland. Bluff’s famous Oyster Festival happens over the same weekend. Bring a poem on a disk to any of the symposium events OR email your contribution to [email protected] between 21-23 April. We aim to build a local and international poetry anthology over three days, launching Sunday 23 April in Oban on Rakiura (Stewart Island). We welcome your poem. We’d like it to engage with time and place, transience and duration, memory and forgetting, coming and going, poetry and oysters – any or all of the above. If you could see this jet fire-seeded sky, chill here with me on a plastic chair on the veranda, we'd hear Bluff hum while lines of sodium and magnesium bridge and wharf lights bleed to black, inexactly as on other nights, other verandas, another port - a kauri pew, wings on the sill of an inside-out lit window, scrying the dark insistent stars, fireflies - we have talked of poetry. Cilla McQueen. ‘Antiphony (Letter to Peter Olds)’ Anthology compilers: Brian Flaherty, David Howard, Michele Leggott, Cilla McQueen and nzepc team Submission guidelines • work should be your original composition • if it has been published elsewhere, please include acknowledgement and publication details • the compilers reserve the right to copy-edit contributions before uploading • copyright for individual contributions to the anthology remains with the author WORDS AND PLACES a workshop for BLUFF 06 • Saturday 22 April, 9.30 am-12 noon In the tradition of the collective poem and online anthology put together during FUGACITY 05 in Christchurch, you are invited to attend and contribute to the BLUFF 06 symposium workshop. • Components There are various components to the exercise we’ll be doing. The first two are: 1/ a poem in a language other than English, with interlinear literal translation and notes. 2/ an anonymous poem in English. For the rest, you’ll have to wait and see. Please bring along pen, paper and anyone else you think might like to spend the morning writing and talking. • Results The end result, by Saturday noon, should be one or more poster-poems for display and impromptu reading. After due consideration, you may wish to type up your poem to be posted to the nzepc online anthology being launched next day in Oban at the final reading of the symposium. • How can you help? You can send us a poem. Either one of your own, in which case you would have to agree to allow other people to play variations on it. Or, alternatively, those of you who are fluent in – or have studied – another language (or languages) could email me a poem laid out as an interlinear text, with the original above and an English translation under each line (as in the example below). Footnotes on contentious points, double-entendres etc. would also be helpful. Please provide a phonetic transcript if it’s written in a non-Roman script. What kinds of poem should you choose? Well, up to you. Fairly short ones, up to a page in length. Poems which interest you, or which you find challenging in some way. Something, in the case of non-English poems, which is out of copyright. The greater the variety, the more interesting the workshop will be. – Jack Ross [email protected] • Example of a poem laid out as an interlinear text Cors de Chasse Hunting Horns Notre histoire est noble et tragique Our story is noble and tragic Comme le masque d’un tyran Like a tyrant’s mask Nul drame hasardeux ou magique No dangerous or magic drama Aucun détail indifférent No pointless detail Ne rend notre amour pathétique. Renders our love pathetic. Et Thomas de Quincey buvant And Thomas de Quincey drinking L’opium poison doux et chaste The sweet and chaste poison of opium A sa pauvre Anne allait rêvant went on dreaming of his poor Anne Passons passons puisque tout passe Lets go let’s go since everything passes Je me retournerai souvent I will return often Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse Memories are hunting horns Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent Whose noise dies amid the wind – Guillaume Apollinaire Notes: l.5. pathétique (adj.) – in the (older) sense of an excess of feeling. PRESENTATIONS FOR BLUFF 06 Hilary Chung and Jacob Edmond. Chinese Poet on a Kiwi Passport: Yang Lian’s New Zealand Poems How do you write exile in a land that has given you political shelter but is incomprehensible to the life of your imagination? What happens to your poetics when the exotic is suddenly where you live and feels like another death each time you step out the door? And how does any of this translate into the language that is doing its best to host you but must perform a double estrangement to understand why you have become a ghost? Yang Lian’s post-Tiananmen Square poems walk out into an unreal city on an isthmus of volcanoes and foetid hothouse decay, fearing multiple failures of memory in themselves and in others. Martin Edmond.